Isiah Thomas announced after Knicks practice today that Eddy Curry will have surgery to repair the torn cartilege in his left knee.

Curry is expected to be out four to six weeks, which means his season, one of the most disappointing of his career, is over

"I don't think I should go any further medically," Thomas told reporters yesterday at Knicks practice, "but the assumption is he's probably done

Curry injured the knee against Detroit March 7. Curry took a few days to see how it would respond to rest and if the swelling went down. It didn't, so he will have the surgery within a week to remove a small piece of cartilege.

And so his season ends with averages of 13.2 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. Last year, his best as a pro, he averaged 19.5 and 4.7. But this year everything seemed to change when
the Knicks traded for Zach Randolph, a player with a similar skill-st to Curry's. Thomas never seemed to find a way to integrate the two. It was always one or the other having a good game, and usually it was Randolph.

Sadly, Curry was playing better just before he got hurt. In his last three games he scored 19, 20 and 23 points on 21-for-32 shooting. Randolph, of course, was absent during thos games because of a sore foot.